No food for non-Muslim students in AMU during Ramazan? Here's the truth

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is allegedly not serving breakfast and lunch to the non-Muslim students during the ongoing month-long fasting fest of Ramazan.

As per the students, the university mess is only serving them sehri (food before dawn at around 3:00 a.m.) and dinner.

"As the university is closed, we are only serving Sehri and Dinner. We are not serving breakfast and dinner during Ramazan," said Samash Uddin, AMU dining hall in-charge.

After the student's ire, the university administration has now promised to provide food thrice a day.

AMU PRO Umar Salim Pirzada said it is the custom of the University which is being followed from quite a long time and now they are making arrangements to provide lunch on demands of the students.

Meanwhile, former AMU student and National leader Amir Rashid said that he received complaint from few students after which action was taken on the same.

"We wrote a letter to the RSS and BJP based on the complaint filed by the students after which the University administration agreed to make changes in their 97 year old tradition," he said.

On the other hand, after the news went viral on social media, the Central University in an official statement said the hostels are serving food for students who are not observing the Ramadan fast. It also clarified that the university hostels and residential halls have a tradition of serving food who are not observing the fast.

"Dining Halls of various residential halls and hostels in the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) are serving food in the lunch hours during the holy month of Ramadan to students, who are not observing the fast", said the statement from the university.

The university statement also said, "AMU has a tradition of serving lunch to students, who do not fast during Ramadan. The lunch has always been served to students on their demand."

On May 29, in a tweet, Prashant Patel Umrao, an advocate alleged that the hostels at the university are not serving lunch and breakfast to Hindu students due to Ramadan.